Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: wjiang@thud.cs.utk.edu (weicheng jiang   )
Subject: PVM on MPI
Organization: Computer Science Dept, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Date: 3 Aug 1995 15:51:41 GMT
Message-ID: <3vqradINNecf@CS.UTK.EDU>

In article <DCoMyu.BIx@cs.dal.ca>, edemaine@ug.cs.dal.ca (Erik Demaine) writes:
|> 
|> If PVM is implemented on MPI, I guess it can now work on all MPI machines.
|> Is this correct?
|> 

Unfortunately, no. MPI is just a message-passing library. The dynamic process
creation and management functions in PVM must be implemented differently on 
different platforms.

-Weicheng Jiang
PVM Group, University of Tennessee

